With the recent successes of the Broadway hit “Bombay Dreams” and the movies “The Village,” “Bend It Like Beckham” and “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” a new wave of entertainers of Indian ethnicity is cooking up a melange in the West spicier than any curry, cumin, coriander or chili powder. And though their […]
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More Than Money
One of the perks of going to UCLA is free and easy access to the Hammer Museum in Westwood or the Fowler Museum on campus. But perhaps one of the campus’s best kept secrets for art-viewing is, right next door to the Fowler, the Anderson School of Management. Who would have thought? “It’s a hidden […]
'I see what we do as physics.' – David Sefton
It may not be so obvious from his appearance now, but UCLA Live Director David Sefton was once a punk rocker in Liverpool, England. Although after considering the avant-garde nature of his work, the idea is a lot more conceivable. Sefton has garnered much success and critical acclaim during his four years at UCLA by […]
Dengue fever fuses authentic Cambodian music with modern rock
A Cambodian psychedelic rock band: Sounds like a hoax, but the Los Angeles-based Dengue Fever is anything but a joke. After winning Best New Artist at the L.A. Weekly Music Awards in 2002, Dengue Fever has been performing numerous gigs in Hollywood and Silverlake, including a residency at Spaceland last March. This Sunday, the band […]
A Lasting Tribute
Politically outspoken musicians are always a cause for controversy. But if there was ever one American musician to represent the American ideal of achievement in the face of hardship and public condemnation, it would have been human rights activist and opera singer Paul Robeson, one of America’s most persecuted activists due to alleged ties to the […]
Collaboration yields unique musical style
For a composing musician, genre can be a sensitive subject. Take ethnomusicology graduate student Martha Mavroidi, whose Balkan jazz ensemble will perform tonight at the Fowler Museum. Although the performance has been clearly labeled as a particular style, Mavroidi still hesitates when asked to categorize her music. “You know musicians hate speaking about genres,” said […]
A Change in Tempo
It seemed that success was never hard to come by for composer Henry Mancini. Before his death in 1994, he left his mark on countless classic films, contributing to the Hollywood pantheon everything from the tenor sax riff of “The Pink Panther” theme song to “Moon River” from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Yet with all his […]